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Advantages of Informal Learning for Organizations

LearnDash

For organizations interested in promoting employee growth, a mix of formal with informal education methods may be the key to success. Informal learning refers to the spontaneous, ad-hoc learning most of us engage in every day when we feed our curiosity or explore answers to questions provoked by our environment. It’s cheap.

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10 Guidelines to Help Your Learners Find Credible Online Sources

LearnDash

As a result, I grew up learning how to find information the traditional way—in books, magazines, and even microfilm newspapers. But I also learned how to find information on the Internet, and how to measure the credibility of a source early on. Later, we were told “you can use online sources, but not Wikipedia.”

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ChatGPT-3 Has Everyone Talking

Learningtogo

First, Open AI used the largest training dataset, combining a database containing much of the internet, a huge library of books, and Wikipedia. Because its training included unvalidated sources like the internet and Wikipedia, some of the content it produces must be corrected. Think of it as a crowd-sourced training effort.

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eLearning Glossary: Definitions for the Most Commonly Used Terms

Association eLearning

If you’d like to learn more, check out this article from eLearning Industry. API- Taken from Wikipedia “an application programming interface (API) is a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software and applications.” In short, Andragogy is another way to say adult education.

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My Personal Knowledge Management Approach

Clark Quinn

Seeking is about information coming in, that is, what you’re looking for and the feeds you track. First of all there’s the ‘as needed’ searches for specific information. Here I typically use DuckDuckGo as my search engine, and often end up at Wikipedia. I also write articles, and sometimes just RT.

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Online Video: the Perfect Social Learning Tool? | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

My learning philosophy: dont make people tote around loads of information in their heads just so you can say you trained them. Instead, tell them where to get the information they need, when they need it. I think social learning must be informal and fun. less big companies, for more than 20 years. tool chest.

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QR Codes are Still Alive and Useful - Thanks Wikipedia!

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

The famous WIKIPEDIA has released a code creator specifically for Wikipedia pages. Wikipedia is a great source of information and QR codes are a cheap way to make connections between our physical world and information rich digital world. Of course I tested QRpedia with the eLearning page in wikipedia.